Re: Firefox...
Sir, Cookie Autodelete.
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Not seen this myself -- surely that's in the spirit of the game? They're playing, signed up and interacting with players. Local security forces, AI hunters and other players will grab bounties and punish those with kill warrants; welcome to Elite.
(as an aside, this happened during beta where it was essentially a free-for-all around one of the lesser policed stations; docking at Freeport was hit-and-miss for ages, great fun jumping in a strafe-blasting a bunch of a-holes for bounty).
Tables turned, I don't think anyone is complaining about all the extras Frontier have added since early in development. I didn't sign up for a free ship (etc)!
Frontier have produced a stunning game that is every bit as good as imagined.
It is one of those things that's easy to scoff at until one gets to used it. I've a charger at work and a couple in the home. It's such a clever thing and no hassle at all; I wish more things put it to use, especially in combination with other features. The Lumia line has a wireless charger/speaker combo that works really well. It uses NFC to play music when the phone is positioned in the charging area... it's quick and simple; it just works.
Wireless chargers would be an excellent addition in a car, for example. Hooked up via bluetooth/NFC, in car display, etc... lets have some more of this magical technology please!
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Secondary school is a good time as they're often going out in an unsupervised capacity, sports clubs, friends houses, girls/boys, etc. Earlier than this, there's an unbelievable level of protection abounds kids that telecommunication isn't required; the little 'uns should know that they need to speak to an adult, not text their parents.
When they were of age, I bought the phone under the condition they pay for calls (etc) themselves. This meant they also had to earn some cash to get what they wanted, which is a good thing. Mostly (kids!).
I quite like this. At least it (kind of) confirms that there's still some clever bods over at Nokia and they can hang on to the tech. Symbian made it easy to drop in the specialist hardware needed to run the camera, so I'd like to think there's someone driving Windows development too. Will it function as well as the 808? I'd like to hope so, will probably end up buying one (sadly, my 808 is less useful without multi-calendar sync).
Target audience is easy. I take my 808 out and about where I wouldn't normally have a full range of camera kit with me. It's only a passing hobby, yet I know I can take some damn fine pictures while I'm cycling around or even just the random bugs in my garden (for example).
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Lovely, really looking forward to seeing the tech resurface; I had started to worry that Nokia had forgotten about it! Love my 808, use it up in favour of other phones if I'm out and about for impromptu photography. While the iPhone is good, the speed and control over the optics in the 808 is really noticeable.
Good stuff!
To be honest with you, I've not had any HDMI issues -- is it a TV thing too, or does it apply to all 2012 minis? I've had the odd flicker when resuming but figured that's exactly that, sleepy hardware cranking its way to life.
Don't be put off purchasing one though. It's a really nice system! I replaced an ageing Hackintosh that I had previously used for development work and was flaky as hell. I have even thought about replacing the little wall wart server I have with this as everything Linux-based just works (with a few --arg exceptions...) so it is instantly useful, small and exceptionally quiet. Power use is only marginally higher than that of the wall wart (a Guruplug derivative) so will do just nicely. Max your mini with 16Gig RAM and it is way beyond anything else as a roll-your-own media server, client or whatever really.
Totally happy with mine. I even posted while logged on so can be labelled a fan boy ;-)
Or at least the geek in me wants it, being addicted to gadgets and all. Stopped because of the difference between Windows RT and Windows 8; the later tablet isn't available yet.
Maybe everyone else is scared, or it hasn't really crossed their minds? It doesn't seem that long ago when Windows 7 was the latest and greatest. And anything else was an iPad. Maybe in a year's time, it'll get picked up, kind of like the Nexus and Samsung tablets now (anecdotal)? Could it be the software and games?
It's an interesting performance choice for sure. There's not much parsing of a tweet's content once submitted but there's some additional overhead to produce something that maps into a bit of XML (e.g. take a look at a tweet's XML when accessed via the API) and to keep track of retweets and conversations. I'd say it's a fairly spectacular goal to achieve, and to keep going to claim higher performance, especially as this is the back-end that has changed all hints at a really well designed and engineered bit of software.
Quite exciting, this computer magic.
It's a great system, hardware is good and it feels good to play. Feels like it's missing a Mass Effect-like RPG or something, something ported from the larger consoles down to the Vita (rather than up from a DS, urgh). Games like Gravity Rush, Wipeout and Uncharted go some way to showing how capable the system is and others like Rayman and Disgaea 3 are perfect hand held titles. There's plenty on the PS store although I'd personally like to see a few more Indie-like games, like Limbo and a few other things. I don't know how the quantity of games compares to other systems lifespan; still feels pretty early on in its life. It is just not 'cool' enough, I guess.
I realise posting probably makes me a bit of fanboy. Oh well. I kind of get 'app fatigue' browsing the various stores, coming across once awesome games only to be ruined by a touch screen.
I can't figure it out at all and can't help but jump to the conclusion that it's all some crazy corporate conspiracy. It seems like Microsoft want everything Nokia have; telco partners and R&D patents. Oops, I mean 'partnership'.
1. Allow ex-Microsoft, but loyal, employee join a potential victim.
2. Partner with Microsoft.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Trufax.
I nearly spat out the tea I was drinking when I read the price. It might be small (ish) but £220 (suggested)? Crikey. One could pick up an Garmin eTrex Vista or Legend for around £140 and they're reasonably small, have massive battery life (I've run one for 23 hours on a pair of AA batteries, how quaint!) and have, not only the precise GPS tracking offered with this device, but also a multitude of additional features (e.g. compass, maps, basic navigation, trip computer and more).
I just don't get it. The pricing needs a re-think. I expected to see a price tag of around £70.